Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Jenna Fisher. And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together. And we're best friends. And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you.
Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0. Hello. Hi. How's it going? It's going so good. It is? Yeah. Same. It's just a beautiful day. I'm sitting across from my friend, my frond.
Oh, that's how I would talk to my kitty cat.
I know, you're saying my frond. And also, we're doing something that's kind of touching my heart this morning.
I'm so excited. We're finally doing it.
Okay, so here's what's happening. We are going to break down the paper, Scam Alert. Okay. Episode five. But first, you guys, we're going to kick things off with An Around the Town. This is the segment we've been wanting to do. You guys remember in our breakdown of episode two of the paper, I shared about my grandmother Lena's hometown newspaper column.
She would document little slice of life moments happening in my hometown of Archer City, Texas. And we just love this idea.
I loved it so much. So we decided to make it part of our show. And we asked you all to send in your around the town tidbits and moments. And we're going to start sharing them in these episodes as we continue to break down the paper.
Yeah. And since this is the first one, we thought we'd kick off the episode with it.
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Chapter 2: How do Jenna and Angela introduce the new 'Around the Town' segment?
Why is that? Why is it better? It's so great. I don't know. I love any of their baskets. You know, their chicken finger basket and the gravy with the French fries and the toast. Oh. I know. All right. Well, next up, this is from Trista N. in Alberta, Canada. She says, I live in a small town in Alberta, Canada called Moranville.
We used to have this beautiful Catholic church that was built in 1907, but unfortunately, it burned down in 2021. Before it was burnt down, the church bells used to ring all the time, and it was just such a cozy feeling. It took some time to rebuild it, and the church bells finally rang once again after almost five years yesterday. It was such a great feeling to hear them ring again. Wow.
Isn't that so special?
Yeah. I mean, that's meaningful. Yeah. That they rebuilt them and to hear them ring, I mean- Throughout the town. It just feels like such a, I don't know, very poetic, symbolic of, you know, rebuilding. Rebuilding. Yeah. All right. Elizabeth P. from Bellingham, Washington said, "'So we have a lot of large, tall trees along the freeway up here.
Someone put a giant sloth way up in one of the trees, and you could see it from the freeway as you drive north.' Well, the Washington State Department of Transportation took it down, but that did not dissuade the good people of Bellingham from bringing the sloth spirit back.
After several back and forths of the sloth going up and WSDOT taking it down, the mystery sloth person somehow managed to get the sloth to new heights so that it could not be brought down. So Slothy has been up there ever since and has a spotlight lit up on him somehow at night for all to easily see him from the freeway.
Slothy lives on. That is so amazing to me. It's kind of great that, I guess, the Washington State Department of Transportation was like, well, it's high enough up now. It's safe. They love it. Clearly, it has its own spotlight. We're leaving it. I guess so. I want to drive by it. Well, thank you guys all so much for writing in your Around the Towns. We'll keep sharing these as the weeks go by.
Yeah, you can find the folder to share on officeladies.com, Around the Town. I feel like my grandmother would be so proud.
Well, now it is time for our Chit Chat Question of the Week, and it's coming from Amy H. in Santa Clarita, California. I might have had a hand in selecting this one.
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Chapter 3: What are the real-life catfish stories shared by the hosts?
Jenna and Sam, you've mentioned that you both lift weights. What do your workouts usually look like? Thanks again for all your laughs and heart you've put into the show. You all feel like friends at this point.
Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy. I love to talk about weightlifting.
You do. You get real sort of, I don't know, like that perky face.
Perky face. Perky face. I would love to give an update on my weightlifting. I've been weightlifting for over a year now, and I am so passionate about it. I weightlift with BodyFit by Amy.
You're inspiring me that 2026 is going to be the year I weightlift because of you. Really? Yes. I'm so excited. You say that. You leave me such great messages about it, and it makes you feel so empowered. I'm like, I want to get on this train.
Listen, after breaking my shoulder and all that cancer treatment, I am stronger physically than I've ever been in my life because I used to work out, but my workouts were always, I mean, if I'm being honest, they were all geared toward burning calories.
Mm-hmm.
Losing weight, maintaining weight. But the weightlifting is about something else. It's about being physically strong and capable in my body. And for me, it's also about, you know, making me have less side effects from my medications because it's been proven that that really helps. And I'm like, I can't say enough great things about it. I love it.
And I want to say I have been lifting weights for over a year with no change on the number to the scale. This is really about strength.
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Chapter 4: How does the catfishing storyline unfold in 'The Paper' episode?
This is really about, like, being capable. Yeah. But I have lost an inch and a half in my waist. Hey! Yeah. So it's like things are, like, reforming. Mm-hmm.
You're like a transformer. A little bit. Robots in disguise.
Yeah.
Sam, what about you? You're still weightlifting, right?
Yeah, still weightlifting, yeah. So I've been doing CrossFit is what I've been doing. And it's super easy to make fun of, and you should, because people that do CrossFit are crazy. But it's really, really cool.
What's CrossFit? Sam, can I say that I used to meet a group of friends for brunch, and we'd be having the biggest pancakes and bacon and mimosas and the CrossFit group. Yeah. In the valley would go running past us, like holding like tires and shit.
Yeah. So it's super brutal. It's one of those like, how do I describe it? It's definitely geared towards single guys in their 40s. But it's like a lot of cardio and weightlifting together. So it's like sets of things. You'll do five sets of running a mile and then 100 burpees and then 50 sit-ups. You'll do that five times.
Oh, my God.
What? Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What details do Jenna and Angela notice in the background of scenes?
Yeah. But you know what I mean? I need a break from the chicken. Yeah. The chicken, the chicken, the chicken.
Yeah, I found these protein shakes. They're mega protein. Really? I think they have like 32 grams per shake or something.
How do they taste?
I like them. They were very low rated on a shake tasting article I read.
Sure.
But they're complete. about the shake were all the things I liked about it. They're like, it's a little thin and watery. And I'm like, I like it. I don't want like a super thick dairy shake. This is a non-dairy plant-based protein. They said it tasted a little chalky. It doesn't bother me.
Okay. We'll have to share it.
Do you want some of my watery chalky shake?
No, I don't.
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Chapter 6: How does Esmeralda react to being catfished?
Jen, I want you to know forever that we podcast. You can be in stories anytime you want.
Well, I'm trying in the new year. I'm trying to contribute more to our stories. All right. It's a little goal of mine. All right. All right. We'll take a break and we'll be back. We're breaking down season one, episode five, Scam Alert of the paper. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. You know, just because it's a new year, that does not mean you have to be a new you.
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We are back. And like we said, we're doing season one, episode five of The Paper, Scam Alert. This episode was written by Mo Welch, who also plays Kimberly on the show.
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Chapter 7: What cameo does Esmeralda receive from Jarson?
I guess so. Writer Ben on the apps. This episode was directed by Tazba Chavez. Okay, this was a big get. I am so impressed. Tazba is the co-exec producer of Reservation Dogs, for which she received an Emmy nomination, a Peabody Award nomination, as well as two WGA awards. There are lots of connections to office folks.
She was a writer on Ed Helms' series, Rutherford Falls, and she directed The Sex Lives of College Girls, and now The Paper.
Oh, that's very office-centric.
So we've got kind of a powerhouse here with our writer and director of this episode. Are you ready for a summary? I live for it. Here it is. In this episode, Ned pursues a juicy catfishing story only to discover that Esmeralda is one of the victims. Oh, poor Esmeralda. Oh, my God. She's so good in this episode. She is.
The team scrambles to expose the scam while Esmeralda stubbornly insists that this guy is real. She keeps sending him money. Meanwhile, Detrick and Nicole are still figuring out their relationship status, and Mare helps Ned with his online dating profile.
They're very cutesy in this episode.
They are.
Mare and Ned.
Yeah. Yeah. Things are heating up.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from catfishing experiences?
There's something you missed. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what this is today, everybody. This is your extra gift. You're going to love it. Are you ready?
Yeah, you're really selling it.
Well, I don't know. I found this interesting. This episode is one of the fan favorites of season one of the paper. Oh. There are like a gazillion Reddit threads that are dedicated to the paper, and they all rave about this episode. According to seriesgraph.com, this is a website that just makes graphs of different TV series and their most popular episodes. This one got a rating of 7.8.
That's very high.
There's two other episodes rated that highly. And then the season finale, that one got an 8.6. That is the, like, everybody's, like, in love with the series finale. I can't wait. I'm not there yet. Yes. Also on IMDb, this was the second highest rated episode of the 10 episodes of the paper. Congratulations, Mo and Tazba.
Yeah. Well, why don't we get to this breakdown? I want you guys to know in the Peacock version, which is the extended version, there is a very funny cold open. It is not in the NBC broadcast version, but I want to give it a shout out. Basically, Esmeralda is in charge of...
planning pride month like what they're doing for it are they going to have a float ken wants to have like rainbow toilet paper that they're going to sell everyone pitches themes for what their float's going to be it's very funny cold open but one of the reasons i wanted to bring it up is that mo specifically talked about how obsessed she is with cold opens when we chatted with her and i loved this perspective we love a writer's perspective
She said because she's a stand-up comedian, she feels like cold opens are like doing a set. It's like you get to do a stand-up joke as part of your episode. And she said for this particular episode, they did not have a cold open written on the day of the table read. And she had to be in hair and makeup at 545.
So I guess she quickly wrote two cold opens and then Greg picked the one that ended up in the show and it didn't even change. It just was the way she wrote it.
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